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1. Feel a vague desire to be more On Top Of Things, and more Productive, and eat less mac & cheese and fewer grilled cheese sandwiches for dinner.
2. Plan meals like a boss! Grocery shop like a boss! (Or, um, pay someone to do it for me, because you cannot get leeks anywhere within a reasonable round-trip.) Cook like a boss!
3. Whoa, cooking like a boss generates a lot of dishes that need to be cleaned.
4. But I was just so Productive! I will wash some dishes later.
5. Go to hell, dishes.
6. Yeah, all my dishes are in the sink, or at the computer desk. YET SOMEHOW I STILL NEED TO EAT FOOD. WHAT IS THIS.
7. Clean off exactly as many dishes as I need to make mac & cheese or a grilled cheese sandwich. Continue until I get fed up.
8. GOTO 1.
Oh well. I just made an enormous quantity of minestrone. I tried to make hummus too. I think hummus works better when you remember to put the tahini in. I did not realize this until hours after I had eaten an entire bowl of hummus thinking, "Well, it's OK, but the garlic and the lemon are kind of strong. What can I put in to neutralize the garlic a little bit...?"
I am spoiled by having had fantastic hummus a couple of times at Mimi's Hummus in Ditmas, which is for real one of my favorite restaurants in the world for what they can do to vegetables. This bugs me about fancy* restaurants in New York -- 9 times out of 10, their vegetarian entree will be squash ravioli, mushroom ravioli, or ricotta and sage ravioli. I love ravioli, okay? On the rare occasion that I have been to a fancy restaurant, I have had some fantastic ravioli. But if I am lucky enough to go to a fancy restaurant I want to be excited by the food and... not be able to predict it before I even load up the menu page in my web browser. Mimi's isn't particularly fancy, and a lot of the dishes I've had there are really simple -- butternut squash soup, lentil soup, cucumber salad. But when you have lunch and you can say "This is the apotheosis of butternut squash soup," that's pretty exciting all by itself.
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*I have to qualify this to specify French/Italian/"New American" restaurants, because of course there's fancy Indian restaurants and Kajitsu and Hangawi and lots more. It's sad because the people I most often go out to eat with really like Indian food, and I... am often too wimpy about the spices.
(I do realize that "When I go out to a fancy restaurant, I'm bored by ravioli" is sort of a "my diamond shoes are too tight" problem...)
2. Plan meals like a boss! Grocery shop like a boss! (Or, um, pay someone to do it for me, because you cannot get leeks anywhere within a reasonable round-trip.) Cook like a boss!
3. Whoa, cooking like a boss generates a lot of dishes that need to be cleaned.
4. But I was just so Productive! I will wash some dishes later.
5. Go to hell, dishes.
6. Yeah, all my dishes are in the sink, or at the computer desk. YET SOMEHOW I STILL NEED TO EAT FOOD. WHAT IS THIS.
7. Clean off exactly as many dishes as I need to make mac & cheese or a grilled cheese sandwich. Continue until I get fed up.
8. GOTO 1.
Oh well. I just made an enormous quantity of minestrone. I tried to make hummus too. I think hummus works better when you remember to put the tahini in. I did not realize this until hours after I had eaten an entire bowl of hummus thinking, "Well, it's OK, but the garlic and the lemon are kind of strong. What can I put in to neutralize the garlic a little bit...?"
I am spoiled by having had fantastic hummus a couple of times at Mimi's Hummus in Ditmas, which is for real one of my favorite restaurants in the world for what they can do to vegetables. This bugs me about fancy* restaurants in New York -- 9 times out of 10, their vegetarian entree will be squash ravioli, mushroom ravioli, or ricotta and sage ravioli. I love ravioli, okay? On the rare occasion that I have been to a fancy restaurant, I have had some fantastic ravioli. But if I am lucky enough to go to a fancy restaurant I want to be excited by the food and... not be able to predict it before I even load up the menu page in my web browser. Mimi's isn't particularly fancy, and a lot of the dishes I've had there are really simple -- butternut squash soup, lentil soup, cucumber salad. But when you have lunch and you can say "This is the apotheosis of butternut squash soup," that's pretty exciting all by itself.
This rant has been brought to you by Restaurant Week.
*I have to qualify this to specify French/Italian/"New American" restaurants, because of course there's fancy Indian restaurants and Kajitsu and Hangawi and lots more. It's sad because the people I most often go out to eat with really like Indian food, and I... am often too wimpy about the spices.
(I do realize that "When I go out to a fancy restaurant, I'm bored by ravioli" is sort of a "my diamond shoes are too tight" problem...)